Google has come a long way since it’s humble beginnings operating out of a garage in Stanford, California.
Google has grown to be so much more than just a search engine, now specializing in all manner of internet-related products and services.
In October 2014, it was reported that Google was valued at $107.4 billion dollars making them the second most valuable brand in the world. (second only to Apple)
Following is a list of the services offered by Google that you may not be aware of. Note that I have edited this list from a much larger list removing services I didn’t even understand.
- Blogger – View and create your own blog.
- Gmail – Google’s free online e-mail service.
- Google+ – Google social networking site.
- Google AdSense – Google service that provides and pays website publishers or blog developers to advertise on their site.
- Google AdWords – Service that enables users to pay to advertise on the Google search engine and other websites using Google AdSense.
- Google Analytics – A great site for users who run a website. Google Analytics allows anyone with their own domain to have Google post great reports of visitors on their website.
- Google Books – Another great service from Google that contains hundreds of thousands of books that can be searched.
- Google Docs – A great free solution from Google that allows you to open Microsoft Office documents as well as share them with other users with Internet access.
- Google Drive – A cloud storage service from Google that allows users to view, edit, and store their documents and files in the Google cloud.
- Google Blog – A blog maintained by Google that helps give an insight into the company.
- Google Earth – A great software program that allows a person to view almost everywhere on earth, get directions, find close shops and places of interest, and much more.
- Google Features – A great listing from Google of some of its different available features as well as tricks on searching for different content on Google.
- Google Groups – Google’s bulletin board with millions of users and postings.
- Google H4x0r – Display Google’s search page and results in leet speak.
- Google Images – Google search that allows you to search for images instead of text.
- Google Klingon – Display Google’s search page and results in Klingon.
- Google Maps – A great feature that enables users to search for directions from one location to another, search for local businesses, and more.
- Google Moon – In celebration of the first Moon landing, Google created this page that has a map of our Moon as well as each of the moon landings.
- Google Personalized – Enables Google users to personalize the Google home page, having it display the latest news they want to view, their local weather, and more.
- Google Pig Latin – Display Google’s search page and results in Pig Latin.
- Google Sites – A service that enables users to create and share websites.
- Google Scholar – Allows users to search for scholarly literature.
- Google SketchUp – A great tool for users to create and share 3-D models.
- Google Street View – Another great service that allows anyone to drive down the streets around the world.
- Google News – Great news site automatically generated using the results of news sites queried by Google.
- Google Patents– Allows users to search over 7 million patents.
- Google SMS – Enables users to send text messages over their mobile using SMS to get quick answers such as driving directions, movie show times, local business listing, etc.
- Google Talk – Instant Messenger program.
- Google Translator – Translate a foreign language web page or text into your language.
- Google Trends – List of the 100 most active search queries and comparison of what people are searching for on Google.
- Google Video – Search for online videos hosted by Google as well as transcript text of videos and TV shows.
- Google.org – The philanthropic arm of Google.
Did you read the whole list? My personal favourites are the “Google Klingon” and “Google Pig Latin”.
NO, I did not put those in to test if you were paying attention, they are for real.
Oh! Those goofy tech geeks!
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